Social cognition and parenting among Black caregivers: Linking public regard to racial and emotion socialization.

= 7.75; 91% female) completed self-report measures of racial identity, racial socialization, discrimination, and emotion socialization. Controlling for child sex, caregiver emotion dysregulation, and prior discrimination experiences, we found a significant indirect effect of negative public regard on minimizing (but not punitive nor distress) emotion socialization through racial barrier socialization. These findings incrementally advance extant literature, which contends that Black caregivers' racial barrier socialization and minimizing emotion socialization may operate in tandem to prepare Black youth for others' negative prejudicial beliefs and anti-Black racism in broader society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).